Books for Africa works to collect, sort, ship, and distribute books to students of all ages in Africa, with the goal of ending “book famine”. Books For Africa remains the largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent, shipping over 41 million books to all 55 countries on the African continent since 1988.

Lamu Youth Alliance has a mission of leading civil society organization in Lamu to encourage young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to social problems they care deeply about.